Green-corn implement



W. ()LCOTT.

GREEN CORN IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 6. 1922.

Patented May 2, 1922.

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To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that WALTER OLCQTT, a citi zen of the United States, residingatSouth Manchestenin the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut,has invented certain new. and useful Improvements in 'Green CornImplements, of which the-following-is This invention relates implement.Among the objects of the 1nvention are the provision of a tool of thischaracter which can be inexpensively made,

and which can be easily and readily operated in performing one ofseveral functions, one ofthese desirably, being in the present casethecutting off of'the tops of the kernels from the cob, and another beingthe cutting through-the kernels and subsequently squeezing the contentsof the kernels therefrom.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of the presentspecification I have shown in detail one ofthe several forms ofembodiment of the invention-which to enable those'skilled in the art topractice the same will be set forth fully in the following description.I am in no sense restricted to this showing. a number of particularswithin the scope of the invention defined by the claims following saiddescription. I

Referring to said drawings Figure 1 is a face view of the implement v asseen from one side thereof.

Fig. 2 is an end elevation as viewed from the right in Fig. 1.

- Fig.3 is a side elevation.

Figs. 4 and 5 are perspective views show-- ing the different actions 'ofthe implement upon an ear of corn.

The implement involves a blade member such as 2 and which may be ofsheet steel or other proper material. At its back end it has a tang 3fitting a notch or kerf 4 in the forward end of the handle 5 which maybe of wood or other proper substance. Usually a rivet 6 is provided tohold the blade'member in rigid assembled relation with the handle 5, therivet extending through the tang 3. V

The body of the blade member 2 is as shown, practically flat and hasalong opposite edges and virtually co-extensive therewith the flanges 7and 8. The flange 7 is desirably but not imperatively at practicallyright angles to the body of the blade member, while the flange 8 is atan obtuse. angle thereto, the ed to a green corn I may depart therefromin g I S pecification of Letters Patent. I i 2 Application filed January6, 1922. Serial no. 527,316. I 1 r ing straight;

i. The blade member 2' has'as shownat one side of itslongitudinalfmedian line1the transverse itS- 9,and the connecting slit/10 the stock '11 -withinf said slits beingbent from the y" of the blademember t p duce thecutting blade 11, the free portion of which isbeveled to produce a cutting'edge;

The free edge of the cutting blade ll' is slightly back of the flange orlip 7 and is in parallelism therewith.

The blade member 2in adjacence'to the bent or curved flange or lip; 8has a longitudinal row of practically segmental slots 12 the stock fromwhich producesa-row of longitudinal and somewhat triangular teeth 13adjacent to the flange or lip 8, the for-. ward sides of these teethbeingbeveled to produce cutting edges. 1

In Figs. 4: and 5-I showthe different ac -f tions of the implement. InFig.4 the flange 7 is at the front, the blade member 2 resting. upon thekernels, the tops of some which have already been cut off as theimplement Y the same observation applying to the fla g I or hp 8. Inthis case as the blade member.

2 is advanced, the forward cutting edges of the teeth out transverselythrough the kerstraight edge, squeezes the substance from the kernels.

tion taken in connection with the annexed;

drawing that. the. implement involves a handle provided with a blademember which has on one side of it a blade and is provided at the rearof the blade with a squeezing portion which as shown is in the form of a.95 nels of corn and the flange 7 or rather its flange, the bladememberhaving on-its opa second squeezing port-ion also'in the form of aflange, the two flanges extendingpracticallyin opposite directions, hatI claim is: V

1. An implement of the class ,described" comprising a handle providedwith a blade 7 member, the blademember having at one side thereof abladeand'pi'ovide'd at the rear of the blade with a squeezing portion,theblade member having on its opposite side a row of teeth and alsohaving back of the teeth a squeezing portion. l

2. An implement of the class described comprising a handle, orovidedwith a blade member, the blade member having on one side thereof a bladeand provided at the V rear of theblade with a flange constituting asqueezing port-ion, the blade member havi ing on its opposite side a rowof teethand also having back of theteeth a second flange disposedapproximately oppositely to the 3. 'An implement of, the class describedcomprising a handle provided with a blade member having out therefrom ablade which is disposed on'one side thereof and the cut ting edge ofwhich is at one side oi" the longitudina l median line of the blademember, the latter .having on the same s1de as the blade, a'fiangeconstituting a squeezing portion,-the opposite side ofthe blade memberhaving a row of teeth, at the opposite side of said longitudinal medianline and also having on the same side as theiteeth a'fiange,

the two flanges being located .at opposite sides oi'the longitudinalmedian line,

Intestimonywhereof I afiix my signature.

